Daniels Motor Company

Daniels Motor Company
Company typeManufacturer
IndustryAutomobile
Founded1915 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
FounderGeorge E. Daniels and Neff E. Parish
Defunct1924
FateClosed
Headquarters
Reading, Pennsylvania
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United States of America
ProductsDaniels Eight

Daniels Motor Company was a pioneer brass era American automobile company, founded in 1915 by George E. Daniels (formerly of General Motors) with Neff E. Parish.[1] George Daniels was a known lawyer, engineer, and mechanic. He was considered the best motorcar designer in the United States.[2] Neff Parish had his own automobile parts and framing manufacturing company. Neff was the creator of the time's highest-grade heat-treated alloy steel frames, respected in the steel industry.[3] Daniels Motor Company produced 1,500 high-quality automobiles between 1916 and 1924, branding themselves as “the distinguished car with just a little more power than you will ever need”, and “The aristocrat of American cars”.[4]

No stock models were created.[5] Daniels cars were built to be permanent personal pieces of art.[6] Each car fabricated was crafted for the individual buyer.[7] With custom coachwork, the Daniels was a bespoke car, built to order, offering a proprietary narrow-angle V8 as standard equipment, for a price (in 1922) of US$7,450.[8] By contrast, the 1913 Lozier Big Six limousines and landaulettes were US$6,500, tourers and roadsters US$5,000; the Lozier Light Six Metropolitan tourer and runabout started at US$3,250;[9] Americans ran from US$525 down to US$4250;[10] the Enger 40 was US$2000,[11] the FAL US$1750, the Oakland 40 US$1600,[12] and both the Cole 30 US$1500,[13] and Colt Runabout were US$1500.[14] Below that, presumably, a Daniels customer would not have looked.

  1. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 161. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Daniels "8" is Much Admired". The Scranton Republican. 114 (27): 14. 1 February 1921. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Erect Factory in Quaker City". Los Angeles Times. 39: 12. 8 August 1920. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  4. ^ "The Daniels Automobile & The Daniels Motor Car Co". american-automobiles.com. Farber and Associates, LLC. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  5. ^ "The Daniels Automobile & The Daniels Motor Car Co". american-automobiles.com. Farber and Associates, LLC. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Underneath the Lustre and Beauty". The New York Times. 71 (23, 279): 10. 19 October 1921. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Underneath the Lustre and Beauty". The New York Times. 71 (23, 279): 10. 19 October 1921. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  8. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 161. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  9. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 111. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  10. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 91. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  11. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 104. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  12. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 84. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  13. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 104. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  14. ^ Clymer, Floyd (1950). Treasury of Early American Automobiles (2 ed.). United States of America: Bonanza Books. p. 63. ISBN 0873414284. Retrieved 23 January 2019.